We are tribal people...
...we want to be a part of a group.One of the ways we learn to be a part of the group, is by learning who's not in the group.
Are the politics of the world no more than the politics of the playground?
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One of the ways we learn to be a part of the group, is by learning who's not in the group.
Are the politics of the world no more than the politics of the playground?
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I don't get agreeing with everything someone says just because they are the tribe you want to belong to. Few people are right all the time, or wrong all the time.
What I actually think of choice society is that people will freely choose to disassociate from anybody different than they are. It is an intensification of birds of a feather.
I always take the view that families and local communities were a good thing not because they are identical minds, but because they are not. You have to make do with it and I think that's the real source of being able to deal with anybody different to you are. It wasn't your choice thank god.
And perhaps not in the early boomers so much, they were still a little bit like their parents but by the people born in the mid 1960s the rounded person was dead, dead and replaced by niches and extremism and, well, selfishness.
So glad we have not passed that onto our kids, but others that have do not
get serious consideration.
but others that have do not
get serious consideration.
But there's printed loo roll in the bathroom.
So glad we have not passed that onto our kids, but others that have do not
get serious consideration.
I think we do subconsciously pass discrimination on to our kids, it just gets slightly watered down, more hidden, or more inventive with each generation. It's something that we ought to consider, rather than pretend discrimination, whether racial or another kind, will go away if we ignore it.